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When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That’s the gist of critics’ arguments against the creation of a government-run tax preparation ser...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Twenty years ago, when I first hired him in Baghdad, my Iraqi interpreter and driver Salam was thrilled that the Americans had to...

During his infamous “mission accomplished” speech in May 2003 from the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, President George W. Bush announ...

Government employees need not fret how wild swings in financial markets will affect their pensions. Public employment is the last bastion of the "defi...

If Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts about his supposedly impending arrest make it feel like our politics are about to reach another level of insanity...

Whatever else it produced, this week’s visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow did not advance the cause of a just peace in Ukraine. If anythi...

If Pennsylvania legislators ever wonder why they might not be seen as completely trustworthy, they need only to look to their track record of how they...

I have written to state Reps. Martin Causer and Mike Armanini and state Sen. Cris Dush to express my strongest disagreement with the proposals to move...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Authorities went to great lengths recently to track down a man accused of recklessly driving an all-terrain vehicle in a pack of ATV...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Sen. Ted Cruz is known for having strong opinions, many of which are needlessly bombastic; some of which are best ignored. B...

Debt limit? What debt limit? Some House Republicans have come up with a scheme that would supposedly allow the Treasury Department to avoid running up...

Seemingly everyone in the commentariat has an opinion on what most hadn’t heard or thought of 10 days ago (Silicon Valley Bank), and from there it’s a...

The disdain law students and their administrators show the First Amendment and differing viewpoints should be a major societal concern. Earlier this m...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s first state budget proposal perpetuates unsustainable spending and fails to address the most promising ideas he put forward during...

How much does a mug shot mean to you? To Alvin Bragg, it apparently means quite a lot. All signs point to Bragg, the progressive prosecutor in Manhatt...

The migratory swallows that famously return on the same day each year to Capistrano, California, were due Sunday. Another perennial event, in this cas...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — March must be a bad month for civil liberties. In addition to the third anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns, it’s the 20th anniv...

A state senator wants to expand a law covering compensation for police and firefighters hurt in the line of duty, but his colleagues should go along o...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — In the brief but spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, we may just have witnessed the best banking crisis ever. It might eve...

Nearly two decades after Congress approved the invasion of Iraq, the legislature is preparing to rescind that vote, as well as a prior war authorizati...